About Halmstad, Sweden — EU-based
Founded 2022 · Independent

A Swedish app platform, built so teams can stop rebuilding the backend.

Vault56 is built and operated from Sweden, hosted in the EU, and intentionally independent of US corporations for core backend delivery. It exists so product teams can spend their time on the parts of an app people actually see.

Why we exist

The same backend, over and over.

Almost every product team rebuilds the same backend. Schema work, endpoint design, auth rules, file handling, approvals, sync logic, operational setup — months of effort before the product anyone uses gets real attention.

We started Vault56 because that pattern keeps happening, even at teams who know better. The backend is essential and unavoidable, but it's rarely the part of the product that wins. The interface is.

Vault56 is the platform we wanted to use ourselves. APIs, storage, workflows, permissions, and operations as platform behavior — so what's left is the experience people actually touch.

And — because where a platform lives matters — Vault56 is Swedish, EU-based, and independent of US corporations for core delivery. That's not branding; it's how the platform is built.

Principles

Three commitments
the platform is built on.

Decisions in a platform compound. These three commitments shape the small calls we make every week and they're the easiest way to tell whether Vault56 fits the way your team thinks.
01

Independence by construction

Built from Sweden, hosted in the EU, with no US company dependency in the core platform foundation. That decision shapes everything downstream, vendor choices, data paths, operational defaults.

02

Platform over plumbing

Backend work should be platform behavior, not custom engineering on every team. The closer that line moves, the more time goes into product and the less into reinventing the same primitives.

03

AI is optional, never required

AI Builder can accelerate the first draft of a backend. It is an accelerator, not a dependency. The core platform stays independent of the AI features that sit on top of it.

Based in

Halmstad, Sweden.

The team, the engineering, and the platform itself are based in Sweden. Infrastructure runs in the EU. Operational independence is intentional and permanent, not a marketing label.

HQHalmstad, SE
RegionEU-NORTH-1
Founded2022
StatusIndependent
Story so far

A short, opinionated timeline.

We don't ship for the sake of shipping. Each milestone here removed a category of backend work that product teams shouldn't have to do alone.
2022
Vault56 founded in Halmstad
Started on the Swedish west coast as the platform we wanted to use ourselves, backend as platform behavior, not custom plumbing.
2023
Core platform: APIs, storage, workflows
Generated endpoints, S3-compatible storage with revisions, workflows and permissions as first-class platform capabilities.
2024
AI Builder, optional accelerator
Plain-language drafting of records, endpoints, permissions, and workflow states. Always optional. Core platform stays independent.
2026
Release manager, branching, CDC
Promotion previews, isolated data branches, replay-safe change streams. Operational confidence for serious products.
 Get in touch

Talk to a real person on the Swedish west coast.

Want to talk about whether Vault56 fits your product? Or curious about how the EU-based, US-independent foundation works in practice? Reach out, we'll get back to you from Halmstad.